Object Details
- Description
- Fragment of an inlay with a floral design. Mosaic technique: columnar rods and plates. White, red, green, and yellow in a translucent dark blue matrix.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 20, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 305 BCE-14 CE
- Period
- Ptolemaic Dynasty to Roman Period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Glass
- Dimensions
- H (overall): 2.5 cm (1 in)
- Type
- Jewelry and Ornament
